Employing multimedia installation, photography, indie-game environments and narrative design, Martin examines the collision of personal memory with larger systems of power.
Don’t be gay : J.D.s (1985-1991)
Curated by Hugo Bausch Belbachir
16.12.2022 – 14.02.2022
Giselle’s Books · Marseille
In a text Bruce LaBruce sent to me, he recounts how he was hit in the face by an English man with a mohawk in the beginning of the 1980s, whilst he was out with a group of sissycore friends. Five years later, J.D.’s (for Juvenile Delinquents) was co-founded in Toronto by Bruce LaBruce and G.B. Jones.
Independently initiated by artists, sex workers, authors, and anonymous individuals close to the local punk movements, J.D.’s intervened as the first printed matter that belonged to a persistent movement; Homocore. Promptly rethought as Queercore, the zine provided a space for radical, pornographic queer literature and iconography to operate and allowed a forgotten generation – decimated by the AIDS epidemic – to develop a politico-structural criticism towards its own limits.
J.D.’s was a revenge.
— Hugo Bausch Belbachir
Don’t be gay : J.D.s (1985-1991) is the first retrospective exhibition on J.D.s in France. Formulated as an anthology, the project is curated by Hugo Bausch Belbachir.
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